Foraging
How to Forage and Use Licorice Fern Root in Winter
How to forage licorice fern root in winter — where it grows on big-leaf maples, how to harvest it without hurting the tree, and how it's…
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How to Store Mountain Herbs Through a Humid Winter
A mountain winter isn't dry the way people expect. Here's how I keep dried herbs and roots from going soft or moldy in my drying shed…
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How to Forage and Use Red Alder Bark, the PNW Way
Red alder grows all over the Pacific Northwest and most foragers walk right past it. Here's how I identify, harvest, and use the bark — the…
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How to Make a Mullein Salve the Old Appalachian Way
How I gather roadside mullein leaves each fall and turn them into a soft mullein salve — the infusing method, the straining trick, and one honest…
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How to Make a Western Red Cedar Salve for Winter Hands
A simple western red cedar salve for winter hands, made from foraged cedar tips, jojoba oil, and beeswax at your own kitchen table this holiday season.
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Dangerous Look-Alikes of Appalachian Medicinal Plants
Appalachian medicinal plant look-alikes that can hurt you: ramps vs. false hellebore, elder vs. water hemlock, yarrow vs. hemlock, and how I tell them apart.
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How to Forage Bloodroot, the Mountain Way (and When Not To)
How to forage bloodroot in the southern Appalachians — how to know it, why to take little or none, the ethical harvest, and how the mountain…
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How to Forage and Use Ramps Without Losing the Patch
Forage ramps the mountain way: how I find wild leeks in the coves, tell them from a leaf that can kill you, harvest so the patch…
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What to Forage in Appalachia in Spring: A Starter List
What to forage in spring in Appalachia — the first mountain plants I gather each April, how to know them without guessing, and how I put…
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How to Make a Mountain Root Tincture (Beginner’s Way)
How to make a mountain root tincture the old Appalachian way — the roots I start beginners on, the folk ratio I use, and the stewardship…